Afternoons at St Marks
Posted: October 14th, 2007, 8:59 pm
Sat Afternoon:
Friend from MS brought over his 12 year old son for a red try. The boy has a pretty good cast
Met them on Sat. at 12:30. Ran to a good flat. I was using TW to find reds while I had them on spoons and TW too. We got into reds right away, landing 2 or 3 on TW.
Ryan landed his first red at 18 (+ an "Eerman"). He also caught a fine 20" trout on TW that his pops had missed the strike on and he swung in and snagged with a spook We landed 2 20" trout and 10 reds, with all but 3 in the slot and one 26-7/8 fatty that Chalk and BD were hoping to find Sat. morning.
Sun. Afternoon:
Headed out with the long pole and worked a very shallow flat. During the low I had 3 sight casts with 3 chases, one a pair of upper slot reds that fought over the fly for 10' or so....bout killed me when they didn't hook up...very exciting though. Changed fly after that.
Sight fished a second flat. Spotted 2 over a sand bar and made a decent cast. Watched the red turn and chase and the 24" red hooked up. Had a good fight for several minutes but he finally got off the fly. Seeing the take was awesome though Spotted a trout on the same bar and got a chase and caught a 16"er!
All in all a fun 4 hours of fishing with the long pole. Got many looks, several bites, and 2 hookups, and casts got where they needed to be....feel like I'm out of middle school now
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Can't wait till next time.
Friend from MS brought over his 12 year old son for a red try. The boy has a pretty good cast
Met them on Sat. at 12:30. Ran to a good flat. I was using TW to find reds while I had them on spoons and TW too. We got into reds right away, landing 2 or 3 on TW. Ryan landed his first red at 18 (+ an "Eerman"). He also caught a fine 20" trout on TW that his pops had missed the strike on and he swung in and snagged with a spook
We landed 2 20" trout and 10 reds, with all but 3 in the slot and one 26-7/8 fatty that Chalk and BD were hoping to find Sat. morning. Sun. Afternoon:
Headed out with the long pole and worked a very shallow flat. During the low I had 3 sight casts with 3 chases, one a pair of upper slot reds that fought over the fly for 10' or so....bout killed me when they didn't hook up...very exciting though. Changed fly after that.
Sight fished a second flat. Spotted 2 over a sand bar and made a decent cast. Watched the red turn and chase and the 24" red hooked up. Had a good fight for several minutes but he finally got off the fly. Seeing the take was awesome though
Spotted a trout on the same bar and got a chase and caught a 16"er! All in all a fun 4 hours of fishing with the long pole. Got many looks, several bites, and 2 hookups, and casts got where they needed to be....feel like I'm out of middle school now
. Can't wait till next time.
